Electronic Web Interface

Interface your Focus database with your eCommerce website.

By using intermediate XML and CSV files, the Electronic Web Interface module provides a batch mode interface, subject to basic assumptions, between your eCommerce website and the Focus Advanced Publishing software database.

Setup: Before you can send/receive feeds you have to

Basic assumptions

The ecommerce module assumes the following:
  1. Your website is trading in your local currency (e.g. GBP for the United Kingdom) therefore it will automatically attach price1 to every customer.
  2. The tax code should have already been determined when the customer was placing the order to reflect their tax status and this should be in the web-orders feed coming back to focus.
  3. The ecommerce module does not pass the override from the website to focus as this is not required for web related customers.

Setup Inbox/Outbox folders

To setup the inbox and outbox folders

  1. Go to Tools> Options
  2. Select the General> Settings tab
  3. Click OKto finish

Setup FTP Directory

To setup the FTP Directory, do the following

  1. Go to Tools> Options
  2. Select the General> FTP Protocol tab
  3. Click OKto finish

Activate feeds

To activate a feed type

  1. Go to Tools> Options
  2. Select the Feedstab
  3. Tick the feed type you want to activate and setup the File Naming Convention and Criteria (if applicable)
  4. Click OKto finish